All special effects but no soul......

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2004)

You see this trend in a lot of films these days. Technology has made it possible to have very cool effects in movies and you see filmmakers relying heavily on these special effects to fill up the minutes in their film. However, you're left watching the movie simply for the effects, like a video game without any caring for the characters and the development of the story. I just finished watching 28 Days Later. There'd been a lot of hype on it, so I figured I give it a shot. Absolutely no emotional connection with this flick. Visually, it played like a long Marilyn Manson video with zombies. Sure there were a couple of jolts in the flick that startle you but that hardly qualifys as true horror. The Blair Witch Project (though hardly a fully realized film and not a movie I particularly liked) provided way more horror without the use of one special effect. Simply a dark forest and a flashlight was able to raise the hair on the back of people's necks in that flick. If you're in the mood to get scared, skip this movie and rent ALIEN instead.